K-PAX

K-PAX is an American science fiction novel by Gene Brewer, the first in the K-PAX series. The series deals with the experiences on Earth of a being named Prot. It is written in the first person from the point of view of Prot's psychiatrist. K-PAX was adapted into a theatrical film of the same name, released in 2001. Series K-PAX (1995) K-PAX II: On a Beam of Light (2001) K-PAX III: Worlds of Prot (2002) K-PAX IV: A New Visitor from the Constellation Lyra (2007) K-PAX V: The Coming of the Bullocks (2014) Synopsis In 1990, a man is picked up by the New York Police after being found bending over the victim of a mugging at Grand Central Terminal in midtown Manhattan. After responding to the police questions with somewhat strange answers, he is transferred to Bellevue Hospital for evaluation. Although not physically ill, he is found to harbor the strange delusion that he is from a planet called K-PAX in the Lyra constellation. The patient calls himself "prot" (pronounced to rhyme with "goat", and intentionally written in lower-case to reflect the insignificance of an individual life form in the universe). He is eventually transferred to the Manhattan Psychiatric Institute (MPI), where he becomes the patient of Dr. Gene Brewer.